We’ve tripped up Trump!

by RamziS Feb 22nd, 2011

We’ve had some brilliant news about our Tripping Up Trump campaign – the Press and Journal has revealed that Donald Trump has given up on his plans to evict families from their homes in Menie![1]That’s a huge victory for people power.

Photograph by Aaron Sneddon

Standing shoulder to shoulder with brave local residents and campaign group Tripping Up Trump, we made Trump back down. That means families in Menie can go back to living their lives, without worrying that this year could be the last one they spend in their own homes.

Life for people in Menie has been difficult while this struggle has been going on. It’s hard to make plans and get on with your life when you know that someone so powerful is trying to chuck you out of your home, so he can build a big golf course over it.

But thousands of us signed our petition, and sent messages to local councillors, telling them that we wouldn’t stay quiet while they put profit before local people’s happiness. We need to make sure that they know that if Trump tries it again, we’ll be ready to pile on the pressure. Then we’ll get all our messages together, and deliver them to Menie.

This is a huge victory for people power. Over 20,000 of us got together to stop Trump’s plans for Menie. It shows that when we work together, we can win even when our opponent is one of the most powerful businessmen in the world.

Together, 38 Degrees members are changing events. On Thursday, we found out that the government in London had reversed its plans to sell off forests in England, after a people-powered campaign involved over half a million of us. The day before, we discovered that plans for a cow factory farm in Lincolnshire had been dropped after our huge public campaign. Now, thousands of us will be getting together to decide what we’re going to do next. [2]